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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kerangka konsep penubuhan Jabatan Aktuari Negara di Malaysia [A conceptual framework for the establishment of a Government Actuary?s Department in Malaysia] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The profession of an actuary is very important towards the society. Actuaries and actuarial scientists employ their skills of mathematics and statistics to measure the financial implication of future events by consideration the risk factors.
Hasim, H
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When TCFD Meets TNFD: Can It Revolutionize Corporate Sustainable Risk Management?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid escalating environmental risks, this study explores the novel integration of the Task Force on Climate‐related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Taskforce on Nature‐related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) as a transformative approach to corporate sustainable risk management.
Xiaoyu Liu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sequencing Finance for Climate Resilience: Instruments, Institutions and Hong Kong's Role in Mobilising Private Capital in Southeast Asia

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates innovative financing strategies to mobilise private capital for climate adaptation, emphasising Hong Kong's role in advancing efforts across Southeast Asia. Using expert interviews and case studies, it addresses two key questions: which financial instruments can strengthen public–private collaboration, and what best ...
Laurence L. Delina   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19 and Excess Mortality: An Actuarial Study

open access: yesRisks
The study of mortality is an ever-active field of research, and new methods or combinations of methods are constantly being developed. In the actuarial domain, the study of phenomena disrupting mortality and leading to excess mortality, as in the case of
Camille Delbrouck   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Relevance of an Existential Conception of Nature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
It is often assumed that science provides the most accurate knowledge about nature. This view not only collapses distinctions between different forms of knowing but also results in a paradox whereby understanding what it means to exist in the world is ...
Mei, Todd
core   +1 more source

Human Experts and AI Models in Offender Risk Assessment: A Comparative Pilot Study Using the HCR‐20V3

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This pilot study compares offender risk assessments conducted by human experts and advanced large language models (LLMs) within the HCR‐20V3 framework. Both groups evaluated a series of synthetic forensic case vignettes designed to simulate realistic clinical conditions. Quantitative results indicate that AI models consistently assigned higher
Shai Farber
wiley   +1 more source

actuar: An R Package for Actuarial Science

open access: yesJournal of Statistical Software, 2008
actuar is a package providing additional Actuarial Science functionality to the R statistical system. The project was launched in 2005 and the package is available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network since February 2006.
Christophe Dutang   +2 more
doaj  

From the Ne’er-Do-Well to the Criminal History Category: The Refinement of the Actuarial Model in Criminal Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Harcourt discusses three developments in 20th century criminal law: the evolution of parole board decision-making in the early 20th century, the development of fixed sentencing guidelines in the late 20th century, and the growth of criminal profiling as ...
Harcourt, Bernard E.
core   +2 more sources

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